Emergency Physical Examination
The initial examination by the veterinary clinician and assistants will allow the doctor to decide on the best treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis for your pet.
Hospitalization Care
Clean, comfortable hospitalization facilities are provided for your pet. Treatments, monitoring, and status re-evaluations are supervised by the doctor on duty.
Medications
Intramuscular, intravenous, subcutaneous, oral, and topical medicines can be used to treat your pet. Oxygen and fluid therapy (fluids administered through a vein) are often used. Among many of the drugs and medicines available are those to alleviate pain, reduce anxiety and fear, to treat and prevent infections, to control shock, and to deal with heart or respiratory failure.
Sedation
Includes pain killing medication, drugs to alleviate fear, and preoperative medication.
Anesthesia
Various types of anesthetics are available. The doctor will choose that which is the safest for your pet. Some procedures may be completed with a local anesthetic which numbs pain; others require intravenous short-acting drugs, or gas anesthesia. Safe anesthesia is monitored by the doctor, staff, and cardiac equipment.
Surgery
A wide range of surgical procedures are performed at the Service, i.e. thoracic surgery, gastric torsion repair, cesarean sections removal of foreign bodies (bullets, bones, balls, swallowed towels), repair of torn tendons and muscles. We also suture severe lacerations. The use of the Service's equipment, instruments and the surgeon's time and clinical expertise are all items that are included in this fee.
Radiographs
This is the fee for the use of radiographic equipment, the assistant's time to hold the pet and develop the x-rays and the veterinarian's fee for interpreting the x-rays.
Laboratory Tests
Up-to-date laboratory equipment provides evaluation of blood and urine samples when necessary. Many chemical test results are utilized to help the doctor make his diagnosis.